Question: What will happen at tonight’s Brookline Selectmen’s hearing into the Arthur Conquest matter?
Answer: More absurdity. The selectmen will announce that they have put together a “blue ribbon panel” to advise them on new wording to the policy they use to review citizen complaints against police. And then there will be a comment [...]
Your publisher interrupts his planned King Day hiatus to bring readers this bulletin - word on the street is that the members of the Selectmen’s Citizen’s Complaint Anniversary Committee will indeed include Brookline PAX Co-chair Martin Rosenthal. Seeing as how Rosenthal actively campaigned for three of the five selectmen currently on the board, it’s [...]
I dreamed a dream in time gone by,
When hope was high,
And life worth living.
I dreamed that love would never die.
I dreamed that God would be forgiving.
Then I was young and unafraid,
And dreams were made and used and wasted.
There was no ransom to be paid.
No song unsung, no wine untasted. - From Les Miserables
On Brookline has received the questionnaire being used to select members for the panel the Brookline Selectmen are using to cover their asses in the Arthur Conquest matter.
I can’t vouch for its authenticity; but based on the questions being asked, it has to be from the hand of the selectmen.
Click here to read the [...]
Channel 4 is running a story (credit: Universal Hub) on a Driscoll School teacher fired on Wednesday for duct-taping a student’s mouth shut. As usual, there’s more to the story than a TV newscast would care to learn.
As I understand it, the teacher made a colossal error in judgment. But I’m told [...]
Here’s what the Brookline Selectmen’s Committee studying an over-ride has to say about the burden of educating kids with special needs:
Given the above mandate and due to significant changes in medical, economic, and social factors, including advances in medical technology, an increase in the number of children living in poverty, and the requirement to educate [...]
I’ve just read through the report of the Brookline Selectmen’s Over-ride Study Committee and (save the minority report) it’s a joke. As expected, it is an exercise in scaring the public into a tax increase.
The Committee says that the school department will face a $1.7 million deficit in FY2009 unless we get special ed [...]
You have to love the timing of the Brookline Selectmen. Last night, on the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birth, they further extended their efforts at racial humiliation (ignoring the facts of the Arthur Conquest matter) by announcing that they plan to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their citizen’s police complaint policy by [...]
It looks like the fifth floor of Brookline Town Hall (the school department) and the sixth floor (town administration) are in a competition to see who can better humiliate people on spurious grounds. Right now, in their handling of the matter of Arthur Conquest, Floor Six is out in front; but I’m working [...]
Someday Brookline will have a town counsel’s office that is something other than a means to obfuscating the incompetence and mendacity of town government; but it appears a long way off.
In case you missed it, this site is of the opinion that each day the current lead lawyer at Brookline Town Hall - Jennifer Dopazo [...]
So much for getting the Arthur Conquest matter behind them. Just now, the Chair of the Brookline Selectmen told the public that, “Town Counsel [Jennifer Dopazo] has told us that she did not issue the “no trespassing order against Conquest, the police officer did that on his own.”
Well, um, Nancy; you’ve just told us that [...]
Here’s a copy of a note sent to town meeting members on their private message board by Selectmen’s Chair Nancy Daly:
The members of the Board of Selectmen are aware that the May incident at Town Hall involving Arthur Conquest has raised some questions as to our police policies and the practices and [...]
There’s a little known committee in Brookline town government called the “Committee on Town Structure and Organization” (COTS) ; it’s essentially a collection of hacks appointed by the town meeting moderator to advise on government operations.
On January 28th, the COTS will meet to discuss a pair of items - a proposal to make permanent [...]
Tomorrow evening, the Brookline Selectmen will officially receive the report from their PR front group study group on the need for an $8 million bailout of the town’s finances. The report will be embraced like the teenagers showing up at the doors of elderly residents and offering to shovel the walk of today’s snow.
The [...]
My head is spinning from all the warrant articles (local ordinance proposals) for the May town meeting - full review of the Conquest matter, new police review policy, independent police review panel. Keep them coming.
While on the subject, it seems to me that a warrant article to institute a town auditor function is long overdue. [...]
Apparently, some on the Brookline Board of Selectmen are looking to emerge from the padded room they’ve created on the Arthur Conquest matter by calling for a review of the policy governing police actions during events similar to May’s Brawl at Town Hall.
Too little, too late (as usual).
There are two issues of concern in this [...]
Tuesday’s Brookline Selectmen’s agenda features this interesting item: “Board discussion of further actions relative to procedures for citizen complaints filed with the Police Department.”
Here’s what that means. The selectmen are trying to head of a slew of warrant articles and requests for full public hearings on the matter of Arthur Conquest [...]
Remember when this site said that the St. Aidan’s housing project was cash-strapped and quality was going to suffer as a result [see previous post]? And remember how the selectmen and the Town of Brookline’s Housing Advisory Board pooh-poohed that by saying, “The Archdiocese is Massachusetts’ best qualified developer of affordable housing?”
Remember that?
Well, we [...]
“For making him egregiously as an ass,
And practicing upon his peace and quiet
Even to madness. Tis here, but yet confused:
Knavery’s plain face is never seen till used.”
- From Shakespeare’s Othello
Perhaps the torrential rains that are falling this morning are the universe’s way of trying to restore equilibrium to our little burg over events of [...]
This site has been too long without a game component, that’s why I’m pleased to introduce a new feature called: “Where in the World is Jesse Mermell?”
Readers will recall that Mermell chose to spend her time in New Hampshire leafletting for Hillary Clinton on Tuesday…instead of fulfilling her public responsibilities as Arthur Conquest put [...]
